Wikipedia:Sockpuppet investigations/Akhunbaba/Archive

05 December 2011

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These accounts have been responsible for making copies and content forks of two main articles, Akbarpura and Akhun Khel, usually when their virtually identical OR material has been removed from them.

182.177.90.146: Akhun Khel and Akbarpura Nowshera

Shah 786: AKHUNKHEL MIANGAN, AKHUNKHEL TRIBE, Akhunkhels and Akhunkhels tribe

Akhunbaba: Akbarpura Nowshera, Akhunkhels (first version) and Akhun Khel Miangan Syed (Deleted at AfD) andy (talk) 11:14, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * They're unquestionably the same person. However, I don't think the user is using the IP maliciously--I'm guessing he simply failed to log in. As far as I recall, he has never once responded to a talk page message.
 * Oh, wait, I see there's a second named account, which is already blocked (though not for socking). I'm definitely too involved to block (I'm the one who's been rejecting his main edits to Akhun Khel for months now as being unsourced OR.  But It's probably appropriate to block the main account too, though I don't think I'd indef at this point.  Maybe that will get him to start talking? Qwyrxian (talk) 13:42, 5 December 2011 (UTC)

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 * Magog blocked Shah, and the other accounts seem quiet. Relist as necessary. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 14:32, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

29 February 2012

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Babakhorasan created Akhun chalak baba, which is a duplicate of Akhun Khel Miangan Syed, which was originally created by User:Akhunbaba and later deleted at Articles for deletion/Akhun Khel Miangan Syed.

In and, the IP attempted to add a large chunk of that same information to Akhun Khel. Other IPs have done so in the past as well, but this is the most recent.

Khanadam also created a duplicate of the master's article, back in October 2011, as his user page; User:Khanadam was deleted via Wikipedia:Miscellany for deletion/User:Khanadam. I'm not sure why we didn't bring this up as sockpuppetry back then.

So, all 3 editors (and other, older IPs) are trying to add the same content, under a variety of different names/articles, to Wikipedia; apparently not learning our rules about sourcing and OR. Since there have now been at least 3 different user names at different times, I think a sweep is also in order to find any others. Qwyrxian (talk) 12:26, 29 February 2012 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I just had to re-open this, per the contributions of User:Akhunkhel, who just added the same content to Talk:Akhun Khel (see ); Talk:Chhachi (Pashtun tribe) (see ), and to xyr userpage, which I've already deleted under G4. The new targets are probably because Akhun Khel was semi-protected earlier today after the above mentioned IP re-added the same content. I know that this still leaves only one active account, but it should probably be blocked as well.  As a side note, though I didn't mention it before, I did try many times to sort this out through dialogue, but, as far as I know, none of the incarnations have ever actually responded to a talk page comment (other than to try to add the same content). Qwyrxian (talk) 14:09, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

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Perhaps I'm missing something, but it appears Babakhorasan and Khanadam are either stale or close to it. Is there any current disruption going on (aside from the IP)? TN X Man 14:25, 29 February 2012 (UTC)
 * I wasn't sure how old "stale" is. Babakhorasan's deleted piece was in December, and Khanadam's was in October.  If that's too old, then perhaps we do just have to close this. The problem is that the method of creating new pages under slightly different names makes it difficult to notice these early unless someone at npp catches them.  So I figured I'd ask and see if there was anything this side could do. Qwyrxian (talk) 21:58, 29 February 2012 (UTC)


 * The IP is likely related - but there's no abuse going on per se. The stale accounts are stale enough that I don't see much logic in blocking them, and the master hasn't been used in awhile either. Relist if it picks up, though. —  Hello Annyong  (say whaaat?!) 02:14, 1 March 2012 (UTC)
 * is already blocked. What do you want us to do here? T. Canens (talk) 05:36, 3 March 2012 (UTC)